What is it like to pursue a PhD at the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication? We asked Mara Balasa, who is the center's first PhD student.

Rikard Westerberg writes in Engelsberg Ideas about Sweden's market turn

Ahead of Sweden's general election in September, Rikard Westerberg asks what lessons can be learned from the intensely contested 1948 election

New article by center director Rikard Westerberg in business history journal Enterprise and Society. The article discusses the investment strategies and dismantlement of the Swedish Wage-Earner funds in the 1980s. 

Next semester, the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication at the Stockholm School of Economics welcomes three postdoctoral fellows and one PhD fellow. These will join the Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy together with their peers from the University of Cambridge, King's College London, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Last week students visited the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as part of their course in applied history. They listened to lectures about the Cold War from leading scholars and visited historical sites in the American capital.

The course in applied history takes students to Peterhouse College and the Centre for Geopolitics, where they learn about the past from prominent historians.

The anthology with student essays from SSE's course in Applied History is now in print.

Swedish Radio interviews Center Director Rikard Westerberg and two students on what Applied History is and the course at SSE.

Media announcement with comments from Dr Rikard Westerberg, SSE President Lars Strannegård and the Chairman of the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit, Viveca Ax:son Johnson.